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Chicago examiner wonderlands of opportunity are the examiner want ad pages magically every want finds its gratifica tion watch for your opportunity every morning in the Chicago examines want ad pages s ch,cago and vicinity â€” fair â€¢% ' to-day and sunday with rising tem jhtf^j ' perature easterly winds shifting to jfcl southerly w the temperature yesterday : i l*>z h'sbest 63 l^g lowesl 44 / average d4 vol ix no 1 1 7 a m saturday Chicago may 6 1911 18 pages saturday o Â£%Â£& fsu price one cent dat:vÂ«rcii tiv carfu 20 onts ner m&nri mayor willing to be referee in labor war notifies plumbers and steam fitters that slugging must stop at once police guard workmen violence ceases for day al i though auto load of men f [ make death threats a proposition to lave mayor harrison act as umpire between the warring interna tional association of steamfitters and the united association of plumbers waa laid before union officials yesterday its acceptance may mean settlement of the present wave of gun play while rejec tion is almost sure to result in a general roundup of all suspected sluggers and the men who employ them the mayor made his offer as sort of an ultimatum to bring the present state of lawlessness to an end he belieyes his proposition has brought about a trnce he was encouraged in bis belief by the fact that conditions ouly required three arrests yesterday and none of the prisoners car ried weapons or was guilty of the extreme violence to which the city has grown ac customed during the morning hours an automobile load of plumbers sped through the south bide streets warning union steamfitters to quit work under pain of death the police could not catch up with the ma chine mayor orders guards placed the mayor summoned corporation couu tel sextoii city prosecutor mclnerney and chief of police mcweeny for a confer ence chief mcweeny was instructed to send details of police to all structures where there might be the slightest possibility of strife and to compile a list of all suspected loggers in the city mr mclnerney was delegated as the mayor's special emissary to call upon chief justice olson of the municipal court and assure the jurist of the department's friendly feeling toward the judges and mclnerney was also dele gated to notify the disputaats that the mayor would undertake a settlement of the trouble in compliance with these instructions mr luerncy sent for an influential inter national union labor official and told him of the mayor's offer and his threat to arrest eyery man suspected of being con nected with the slugging game if there was any more serious trouble the clj:y officials refused to divulge the name of the labor official but said he was a man cf spotless reputation who deplored the present state of affairs and a man who would have great influence in having the unionists accept the mayor's offer to act as umpire mr dclnerney expects this official to bring other labor leaders to aim and is sanguine that peace is in bight arrests are threatened later the city prosecutor said this administration will'srdsecute to the fullest extent of the law any and all persons who attempt to nse the city of Chicago as a dumping gronnd for thugs and make it the battle ground between warring labor fac tions the mayor is not personally iuter mted in the merits of the controversy and la concerned only in the strict enforcement of the law regardless of who is bit he wants peace if it is not scon forthcom ing there will be the grandest roundup of suspects ever heard of chief mcweeny has a good idea of who the sluggers are and the men who employ and encourage them and he has made it plain that he will stand tor no further rough conduct the mayor la willing to act as arbiter or umpire he wishes to be fair lyut isn't going to be imposed upon chief mcweeny and his subordinates with one accord joyously announced there will be uo more slugging when asked for news of the conflict autoists talk of slaying but the police are troubled by the auto molilists these thugs stopped at the schoolbuuse under course of erection at btsty-third street and lugleside avenue and paid their respects to frauk donohue pres ident of the steuiufitters union whom they attacked last wednesday and threat ened lo do some killing according to donahue's version if he was still on the job on monday from here they sped to ! the new sinai temple and warned the jteaiul'itters in similar fashion one of the threatened men reported the sluggers as ridiculing the present police i efforts to suppress the violence and de eiariug the crusade to be only a little ac tivity that would soon blow over the police were also annoyed by the dis covery that joseph d'andrea business agent of the tunnel miners union w*as carrying a revolver and wearing the badgs of a deputy sheriff and the report that jfjrar sluggers were similarly equipped with badges the discovery was made by detectives etchingham and sloyer of as sistant chief schuettler's office when they part 1 of hoe library is sold for 997,363 chicagoan beaten by new yorker in bidding duel for american book bringing 10,000 " new york may s the total for part one of the sale of the robert hoe library is 5997.36u.50 that sum includes 47,876 realized at the last session of this part of the library to-day this grand total more than triples the highest snm ever secured for any library sold at public auction the former record was 320,000 an unfortunate mistake in cataloguing one bo*k defeated the possibility of reach ing the million-dollar mark that item is adriaen yan der donc-k's niettw amster dam valued at from 3,000 to 4,000 next november part two of this tremen dous library will be offered 4 record price for an american book was realized to-day when john winthrop's a declaration of former passages and pro ceedings betwixt the english and the nar rowgansetts sold to george d smith for 10,000 it is the first book on a historical subject printed in english america the bidding became a duel between wal ter m hill of Chicago and smith of new york \ stubbs aids woman mayor kansas governor backs up hunnewell official in liquor fight topeka kan may s governor stubbs announced to-day that he would give the women officials of hunnewell kan all the assistance they needed in their fight to enforce the prohibitory law women sup porters of the woman mayor mrs ella wilson wrote to governor stubbs and complained that the council refused to aid the mayor jn her fight on violators of the law the laws are not enforced says mrs wilson because there are no officers to enforce them and she cannot appoint offi cers because the council reruses to approve her appointments mrs elmer g case girl in pajamas on car young somnambulist goes into hys terics when awakened downtown omaha neb may s dressed in a suit of blue silk pajamas and wearing the thoughtful air of a somnambulist miss sadie allen a pretty twenty-year-old omaha girl boarded a harney street car at raidnigjht last night came down to the business part of the city and was finally awakened by physicians who took hen in charge when with the aid of a glass of ice water she was brought to conscious ness she went into hysterics she was wrapped in tablecloths from a nearby cafe and taken home in an automobile 200,000 alimony pie for mrs case manufacturer must bake 20 000,000 custards for ex-wife wins divorce children dessert factory will be busy for twenty years paying plaintiff's cash sing a song of sixpence . a pocket full of ry . two hundred thousand dollars baked in a pie when the pie was opened with an alimony knife ijo the pieman's helpmeet was nicely fixed for life according to eminent statisticians on that delectable dainty not always digestible great american delicacy commonly known as pie elmer g ase . secretary of the case & martin pie company will have to bake and sell in the next twenty years a mere trifle of something like 2u.000.000 pies in order to provide the wherewithal with which to pay the alimony that was granted his wife mrs isabel case with her di vorce yesterday â€” the divorce decree does not say any thing about the kind of pies that must be baked they may be apple pumpkin rasp berry custard lemon prune or even tarts but just the same a nice little stunt of turning out of his jiie factory an average of 33,333 pies each of the 300 working days in the year just to provide the profit that must go into alimony fees is the one that has been laid down for mr case by judge william fenimore cooper lemon pie says case pie a ja mode the judge's decree might be called in these twentieth century days lemon pie case is more apt to call the decree custard pie mrs case might well term it bnt whatever the light in which it is viewed it certainly was some pie cutting that was done by judge cooper yesterday it was jast about the juiciest pie that has been cut in Chicago for a long time no wonder mr case ruefully refers to it as a lemon trade vernacular for lemon pie it was like this judge cooperâ€”awarded mrs case who lives at 1807 walnnt street the decree of dirorc she sought bhe charged case with forgetfnlcess of his marriage vows and named or rather designated without nam ing them two young women upon whom some of case's attentions are said to have been lavished hopes for u s appetite judge cooper went even further he granted mrs case the custody of her two daughters ' lorena fair aged seventeen and elesha fifteen years old and he or dered case to pay mrs case a yearly alimony of 5,000 for the nex.t twenty years by that time an endowment policy on the life of the pie man will have ma tured and he is ordered to pay his di vorced wife the face of this policy amount ing to 100,000 besides having to keep up the premiums so in reality the alimony amounts to the snug litle sum of 200,000 right here is where the statistician gets in his deadly work taking the wholesale price of pies at 5 cents this figure bug estimates that case in the next twenty years would have to bake and sell 4,000.000 pies 200,000 pies a year or 666 2-3 pies a day merely to take in the 200,000 alimony that he is re quired to pay pies are not all profit figuring the profit on a liberal basis the statistician estimates 20,000,000 as the number of pies that will have to be baked in the case & martin factory in order to provide the profit necessary to pay the alimony it seems to be a lucky thing for mr case that the great american pie appetite is as good as it always has been sneezes rout audience joker throws powder and crowd nearly strangles athens ga may s while an audi ence of men women and children was en joying thrilling escapades of moving picture heroes and heroines a practical joker blew the contents of a bottle of chinese sneez ing powder into the theater and caused the hasty exodus of the half-strangled | crowd the mayor has offered a reward for the arrest of the joker aids colored y m c a julius rosenwald gives 25,000 to washington institution washington may s ln response to a letter from president Taft in which he said a y m c a building in washing ton for colored people is more important than in any other city julius hosenwald of Chicago has offered to give the col ored y m c a of washington 25,000 to complete its new building noisy mule is enjoined court grants temporary order giving plaintiff quiet at night pontiac 111 may 5.-an injunction against a loud-voiced mule was asked to day by b d wise of potomac frank deamude is the owner of the mule wise alleges that the unearthly braying of the animal keeps him awake nights judije klmbrougb granted a temporary injunction i 1 , ' error in spelling holds up 400,000 lettering of la salle on city hall corner starts con tract row name is cut in wrong new commissioner balks pay ment till mistake is corrected improper arrangement of the letters com prising the word la salle on two corners of ne new city hall has tied up in the city treasury nearly 400,000 which | the council long ago directed be paid to the noel construction company builders of the structure the little blunder on the part of the stone cutter who chiseled it lasalle instead of la salle in the northwest and southwest corners of the handsome edifice is going to cost thousands of dollars to remedy and may permanently mar the architectural beauty of the building blunder worries officials â– but how is the blunder to be remedied that's the question that is bothering com missioner of public works mcgann and holabird & itoeb the supervising archi tects and harry t marsh their superin tendent in immediate chargfie of the work messrs holabird roche and marsh held a lengthy conference with commissioner mc gann yesterday afternoon and tried to con vince him he ought to be forthcoming with the 400,000 warrant ordered by the out going busse council but the commissioner said nay and declared the money would be held up until the mistake was properly remedied hen the architects offered a remedy one that suited mullaney and the outgoing ad ministration but one that is seriously ob jected to by commissioner mcgann they chiseled out the whole name making a groove five inches wide forty-two inches long adn half an inch deep and had all arrangements made for putting in a dutchman when commissioner mcgann went on the job and called a halt patchwork scorned dntching means to wedge in a piece of stone to fit the groove or hole and then polishing oyer until the defect is not ob servable when the name could be recut but city architect c w kallal and a number of experts consulted informed commissioner mcgann that after the stone was thoroughly weatherbeaten in the course of three or four years the black outlines of the patchwork would be plainly discern ible and the beauty of the structure would be marred the contractors have collected 2,784,768 of the contract price of 3,845,344 and the balance 560,576 was held in reserve until completion of the building just before bnsse's term expired he caused an order directing the commissioner of pub lic works to sanction the payment of two thirds of the reserve fund for some reason mullaney failed to attend to the matter and nobody suspected mcgann would object until his attention was called to the blank spaces in the la salle street walls man conquers suffragist lady sybil smith talking too much obeys husband in hurry new york may s lady sybil smith one of england's aristocratic militant suf fragettes obeyed the command of man as soon as she set foot ashore from the lusilauia to-day she is young and hand some and had begun to tell what her plans were for her slay in america as the guest of j pierpont morgan jr when her husband vivien smith who looks a militant air told her ladyship not to talk too much the englishwoman said that she had not planned the parade of women in london for june 17 although she in tends to take part in it that she would like to meet mrs belmont but is going to canada and vancouver and right back to london then her husband intervened wire foretells poisoning stranger notifies mrs b j cigrand of chicagoan's illness due later des moines lowa may 5 a telegram signed c r becker and saying that dr b j cigrand of Chicago had been poi soned was filed here at 8 o'clock last night addressed to mrs cig/and at her home in Chicago she arrived at des moines to day after a fruitless all-day search she learned to-night that he is in burlington he said over the long distance phone that he had been taken ill apparently from some sort of poisoning at 10:30 o'clock last night following a luncheon this was more than two hours after the mysterious message was filed c h becker has not been discovered dr cigrand was in des moinec and burlington to lecture before dental societies he is editor of the na tional dental journal caterpillars halt trains sapulpa okla may s au traius on the midland valley railroad were late into sapnlpa to-day on account of caterpillars which swarmed the tracks in the wooded sections so that the locomotives slipped or were stalled trainmen said they had to sweep the worms from the rails and mnd the track before the wheels would sti^k fc diaz defiant will not quit fight to death is assured intervention inevitable-gen wood washington may 5 â€” general leonard wood chief of staff of the army informed the military committee of the hoiise to-day that american intervention in mexico is inevitable general wood said : it will take more than 200,000 american soldiers to police mexico but it is my opinion it is unavoidable general wood made the statement to the members of the committee on military affairs at an executive session after a dis cussion of the pending army reorganization bill the mexican situa tion was broached thereupon he made the above statement cullom won't back lorimer in fight to block new inquiry senijr Illinois senator also an nounces that he will not op . pose bills before body washington may b senator cullom of Illinois regular of regulars and nominal head of the republican party in the sen ate will not oppose a second investigation into the rights of senator lorimer his colleague to a seat in the senate accord ing to his statement made to-day i have no objection to consideration and action on measures which affect the in tegrity of the senate said senator cul lom furthermore senator cullom either as the head of the senate regulars or as an individual member of the upper branch of congress will not oppose senatorial action at the extra session on the constitutional amendment for the direct election of sena tors the campaign publicity bill and the reapportionment bill although the ad mitted desire of the senate regulars is to consider no measures but the reciprocity agreement at this session senator cullom is prepared to go farther along the lines in which the people of the country want congress to proceed at next monday's meeting of the finance commit tee of which be is the ranking member and which now has the reciprocity agree ment before it for consideration he will speak out and insist upon an effort to hasten deliberation of the measure if we don't get down to tasiness pretty soon we'd better go home says senator cullom at any rate we should go to places which will be more comfortable in summer than washington we ought to quit this fooling along senator cullom went on to say that he has no objection to the senate considering the measures placed before it by the house with the exception of the farmers free list bill there is nothing ont of the way about this sentiment for a regular republican senator innsmuch as the ad ministration members have always treen against it for the general but not particu larly illuminative reason that it is tinker ing with the tariff porfirio diaz aviator circles capitol lincoln beachey also sees batl game from region above washington mav s lincoln beachey to-day made the first aeroplane voyage ever accomplished around the capitol of the united states incidental to circling the big dome he traversed the entire overhead section of washington and almost broke up a baseball game between washington and the athletics at national park by fly ilng above it med intervention by u.s is certain declares gen wood force of 200,000 is necessary aged president regains his lost popularity people now more alarmed over leader's health than over revolt rebels take rib verde general blanquet is routed douglas ariz may 5 a late dispatch says th.h two mexican gunboats were shelling mazatian which is un derstood to be an unfortified town shelling sÂ«ch a city it contrary to the usages of war in order to shell the city even if fortified ample notice should be given to the noncombrt ants washington may s the state department was informed to-day by ambassador wilson that three ons ot judge melvin goodwin living in acapulco have been kuied by insurrectos an investigation will be made by mexican authorities by harry h dunn 7 a exico city ' may s standing on the steps of his tottering i jfl throne ' porfirio dias !. for twenty-six years president of mexico v â–¼ . to-day defied his enemies repudiated his perfidious friends ana 4 refused to accede to the demands of the foes of the present government and step down and out of his self-created office all day long the foes of the gray-haired fighter from oaxaca have showered blow af^er blow upon him and alone and single-handed he has met them until to-night he sits upon the presidential chair more firmly intrenched than when the morning guns boomed their salute to the sth of may with the dawn same the news that torreon had fallen at noon the rebels had taken rio verde between san luis potosi and tampico killing the jefe politico and getting into position to cut the railroad to tampico general blahquet leaving puebla with 1,200 men fought the rebels at colon and returned with 200 the remainder were killed or had deserted cabinet urges diaz to resign but fails the cabinet met at 10 o'clock this morning it is understood that they urged diaz to resign but failed petitions were signed by almost every professional man in the city asking tor his resignation employes of all the big houses also asked him to quit the cabinet met again at 4 30 this afternoon and is stin in session the city is decorated flowers and electric lights are everywhere but when night fell all was allowed to remain dark except street and house lights it seemed as if the city were mourning lor its passed leader the nation grieving for a dead dynasty then came the reaction despite his illness diaz proved himself still the iron-hearted warrior who brought mexico to success in a quarter of a century the day generally was peaceful despite general disturbances thou sands filled the parks to hear the band music hundreds of police mounted and afoot patrolled ail the streets all sa?oons were closed the giant question mark which hung over the city last night seemeu lifted though no open statement of diaz's attitude was made diaz's refusal to quit means fight to end diaz's refusal to resign means a fight to the death yet liei-o-^vw shiping mexicans seem in a way turned to him he alone they fcei can save them and as children to father they look to him for relief the sad condition of the republic he again is the leader or the nation he has made anxiety is greater here to-night over diaz's health ihan oi i the revolt the heart of the capital city throbs for dia rebels met in a skirmish with federals at tres marias to-day tfcp casualties were slight â€¢ the insurrectos circled the hills and cam .-..;. eighteen miles from the city on the cuernavaca road wires t :' â– north are down and the national railway has been cut near vie bcrde - . the cabinet is in session without de la barra and a ffnal reply 'â– â– > madero will be sent this evening dela barra would be the ie^a successor of diaz should the latter resign \ the american ambassador harry lane wilson has a!:en oti'.c'h notice of the assassination of the three goodwin brothers of los angeis.-i / by the insurrectos at acapulco warships would reach that point iu tiree ( days mrs huntington better new york may 3 mrs collis p huntington who underwent an operation for appendicitis at her home wednesday was so far improved to-day that her phy sicians stated that her complete recovery vni'tt matter of oniv a fÂ«w days armistice expires at noon to-day rebel attack on juarez expected el paso tex may 0 the dove of peace which hovered yesterday and last nigh over juarez and the insurreeto camp bow seems far off because diaÃŸ has re fused to answer the telegram sent him last night asking him to make a public statement he is said to have made iu pri vate that he is going to resign when peace is restored oscar branlff one of the federal peace commissioners says he does not expect diaz to answer peace nego tiations cannot go on unless he does so continued on 4th page 4th column free with to-morrow's sunday examiner a 32-page book handsomely printed and bound with col ored cover 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Chicago examiner wonderlands of opportunity are the examiner want ad pages magically every want finds its gratifica tion watch for your opportunity every morning in the Chicago examines want ad pages s ch,cago and vicinity â€” fair â€¢% ' to-day and sunday with rising tem jhtf^j ' perature easterly winds shifting to jfcl southerly w the temperature yesterday : i l*>z h'sbest 63 l^g lowesl 44 / average d4 vol ix no 1 1 7 a m saturday Chicago may 6 1911 18 pages saturday o Â£%Â£& fsu price one cent dat:vÂ«rcii tiv carfu 20 onts ner m&nri mayor willing to be referee in labor war notifies plumbers and steam fitters that slugging must stop at once police guard workmen violence ceases for day al i though auto load of men f [ make death threats a proposition to lave mayor harrison act as umpire between the warring interna tional association of steamfitters and the united association of plumbers waa laid before union officials yesterday its acceptance may mean settlement of the present wave of gun play while rejec tion is almost sure to result in a general roundup of all suspected sluggers and the men who employ them the mayor made his offer as sort of an ultimatum to bring the present state of lawlessness to an end he belieyes his proposition has brought about a trnce he was encouraged in bis belief by the fact that conditions ouly required three arrests yesterday and none of the prisoners car ried weapons or was guilty of the extreme violence to which the city has grown ac customed during the morning hours an automobile load of plumbers sped through the south bide streets warning union steamfitters to quit work under pain of death the police could not catch up with the ma chine mayor orders guards placed the mayor summoned corporation couu tel sextoii city prosecutor mclnerney and chief of police mcweeny for a confer ence chief mcweeny was instructed to send details of police to all structures where there might be the slightest possibility of strife and to compile a list of all suspected loggers in the city mr mclnerney was delegated as the mayor's special emissary to call upon chief justice olson of the municipal court and assure the jurist of the department's friendly feeling toward the judges and mclnerney was also dele gated to notify the disputaats that the mayor would undertake a settlement of the trouble in compliance with these instructions mr luerncy sent for an influential inter national union labor official and told him of the mayor's offer and his threat to arrest eyery man suspected of being con nected with the slugging game if there was any more serious trouble the clj:y officials refused to divulge the name of the labor official but said he was a man cf spotless reputation who deplored the present state of affairs and a man who would have great influence in having the unionists accept the mayor's offer to act as umpire mr dclnerney expects this official to bring other labor leaders to aim and is sanguine that peace is in bight arrests are threatened later the city prosecutor said this administration will'srdsecute to the fullest extent of the law any and all persons who attempt to nse the city of Chicago as a dumping gronnd for thugs and make it the battle ground between warring labor fac tions the mayor is not personally iuter mted in the merits of the controversy and la concerned only in the strict enforcement of the law regardless of who is bit he wants peace if it is not scon forthcom ing there will be the grandest roundup of suspects ever heard of chief mcweeny has a good idea of who the sluggers are and the men who employ and encourage them and he has made it plain that he will stand tor no further rough conduct the mayor la willing to act as arbiter or umpire he wishes to be fair lyut isn't going to be imposed upon chief mcweeny and his subordinates with one accord joyously announced there will be uo more slugging when asked for news of the conflict autoists talk of slaying but the police are troubled by the auto molilists these thugs stopped at the schoolbuuse under course of erection at btsty-third street and lugleside avenue and paid their respects to frauk donohue pres ident of the steuiufitters union whom they attacked last wednesday and threat ened lo do some killing according to donahue's version if he was still on the job on monday from here they sped to ! the new sinai temple and warned the jteaiul'itters in similar fashion one of the threatened men reported the sluggers as ridiculing the present police i efforts to suppress the violence and de eiariug the crusade to be only a little ac tivity that would soon blow over the police were also annoyed by the dis covery that joseph d'andrea business agent of the tunnel miners union w*as carrying a revolver and wearing the badgs of a deputy sheriff and the report that jfjrar sluggers were similarly equipped with badges the discovery was made by detectives etchingham and sloyer of as sistant chief schuettler's office when they part 1 of hoe library is sold for 997,363 chicagoan beaten by new yorker in bidding duel for american book bringing 10,000 " new york may s the total for part one of the sale of the robert hoe library is 5997.36u.50 that sum includes 47,876 realized at the last session of this part of the library to-day this grand total more than triples the highest snm ever secured for any library sold at public auction the former record was 320,000 an unfortunate mistake in cataloguing one bo*k defeated the possibility of reach ing the million-dollar mark that item is adriaen yan der donc-k's niettw amster dam valued at from 3,000 to 4,000 next november part two of this tremen dous library will be offered 4 record price for an american book was realized to-day when john winthrop's a declaration of former passages and pro ceedings betwixt the english and the nar rowgansetts sold to george d smith for 10,000 it is the first book on a historical subject printed in english america the bidding became a duel between wal ter m hill of Chicago and smith of new york \ stubbs aids woman mayor kansas governor backs up hunnewell official in liquor fight topeka kan may s governor stubbs announced to-day that he would give the women officials of hunnewell kan all the assistance they needed in their fight to enforce the prohibitory law women sup porters of the woman mayor mrs ella wilson wrote to governor stubbs and complained that the council refused to aid the mayor jn her fight on violators of the law the laws are not enforced says mrs wilson because there are no officers to enforce them and she cannot appoint offi cers because the council reruses to approve her appointments mrs elmer g case girl in pajamas on car young somnambulist goes into hys terics when awakened downtown omaha neb may s dressed in a suit of blue silk pajamas and wearing the thoughtful air of a somnambulist miss sadie allen a pretty twenty-year-old omaha girl boarded a harney street car at raidnigjht last night came down to the business part of the city and was finally awakened by physicians who took hen in charge when with the aid of a glass of ice water she was brought to conscious ness she went into hysterics she was wrapped in tablecloths from a nearby cafe and taken home in an automobile 200,000 alimony pie for mrs case manufacturer must bake 20 000,000 custards for ex-wife wins divorce children dessert factory will be busy for twenty years paying plaintiff's cash sing a song of sixpence . a pocket full of ry . two hundred thousand dollars baked in a pie when the pie was opened with an alimony knife ijo the pieman's helpmeet was nicely fixed for life according to eminent statisticians on that delectable dainty not always digestible great american delicacy commonly known as pie elmer g ase . secretary of the case & martin pie company will have to bake and sell in the next twenty years a mere trifle of something like 2u.000.000 pies in order to provide the wherewithal with which to pay the alimony that was granted his wife mrs isabel case with her di vorce yesterday â€” the divorce decree does not say any thing about the kind of pies that must be baked they may be apple pumpkin rasp berry custard lemon prune or even tarts but just the same a nice little stunt of turning out of his jiie factory an average of 33,333 pies each of the 300 working days in the year just to provide the profit that must go into alimony fees is the one that has been laid down for mr case by judge william fenimore cooper lemon pie says case pie a ja mode the judge's decree might be called in these twentieth century days lemon pie case is more apt to call the decree custard pie mrs case might well term it bnt whatever the light in which it is viewed it certainly was some pie cutting that was done by judge cooper yesterday it was jast about the juiciest pie that has been cut in Chicago for a long time no wonder mr case ruefully refers to it as a lemon trade vernacular for lemon pie it was like this judge cooperâ€”awarded mrs case who lives at 1807 walnnt street the decree of dirorc she sought bhe charged case with forgetfnlcess of his marriage vows and named or rather designated without nam ing them two young women upon whom some of case's attentions are said to have been lavished hopes for u s appetite judge cooper went even further he granted mrs case the custody of her two daughters ' lorena fair aged seventeen and elesha fifteen years old and he or dered case to pay mrs case a yearly alimony of 5,000 for the nex.t twenty years by that time an endowment policy on the life of the pie man will have ma tured and he is ordered to pay his di vorced wife the face of this policy amount ing to 100,000 besides having to keep up the premiums so in reality the alimony amounts to the snug litle sum of 200,000 right here is where the statistician gets in his deadly work taking the wholesale price of pies at 5 cents this figure bug estimates that case in the next twenty years would have to bake and sell 4,000.000 pies 200,000 pies a year or 666 2-3 pies a day merely to take in the 200,000 alimony that he is re quired to pay pies are not all profit figuring the profit on a liberal basis the statistician estimates 20,000,000 as the number of pies that will have to be baked in the case & martin factory in order to provide the profit necessary to pay the alimony it seems to be a lucky thing for mr case that the great american pie appetite is as good as it always has been sneezes rout audience joker throws powder and crowd nearly strangles athens ga may s while an audi ence of men women and children was en joying thrilling escapades of moving picture heroes and heroines a practical joker blew the contents of a bottle of chinese sneez ing powder into the theater and caused the hasty exodus of the half-strangled | crowd the mayor has offered a reward for the arrest of the joker aids colored y m c a julius rosenwald gives 25,000 to washington institution washington may s ln response to a letter from president Taft in which he said a y m c a building in washing ton for colored people is more important than in any other city julius hosenwald of Chicago has offered to give the col ored y m c a of washington 25,000 to complete its new building noisy mule is enjoined court grants temporary order giving plaintiff quiet at night pontiac 111 may 5.-an injunction against a loud-voiced mule was asked to day by b d wise of potomac frank deamude is the owner of the mule wise alleges that the unearthly braying of the animal keeps him awake nights judije klmbrougb granted a temporary injunction i 1 , ' error in spelling holds up 400,000 lettering of la salle on city hall corner starts con tract row name is cut in wrong new commissioner balks pay ment till mistake is corrected improper arrangement of the letters com prising the word la salle on two corners of ne new city hall has tied up in the city treasury nearly 400,000 which | the council long ago directed be paid to the noel construction company builders of the structure the little blunder on the part of the stone cutter who chiseled it lasalle instead of la salle in the northwest and southwest corners of the handsome edifice is going to cost thousands of dollars to remedy and may permanently mar the architectural beauty of the building blunder worries officials â– but how is the blunder to be remedied that's the question that is bothering com missioner of public works mcgann and holabird & itoeb the supervising archi tects and harry t marsh their superin tendent in immediate chargfie of the work messrs holabird roche and marsh held a lengthy conference with commissioner mc gann yesterday afternoon and tried to con vince him he ought to be forthcoming with the 400,000 warrant ordered by the out going busse council but the commissioner said nay and declared the money would be held up until the mistake was properly remedied hen the architects offered a remedy one that suited mullaney and the outgoing ad ministration but one that is seriously ob jected to by commissioner mcgann they chiseled out the whole name making a groove five inches wide forty-two inches long adn half an inch deep and had all arrangements made for putting in a dutchman when commissioner mcgann went on the job and called a halt patchwork scorned dntching means to wedge in a piece of stone to fit the groove or hole and then polishing oyer until the defect is not ob servable when the name could be recut but city architect c w kallal and a number of experts consulted informed commissioner mcgann that after the stone was thoroughly weatherbeaten in the course of three or four years the black outlines of the patchwork would be plainly discern ible and the beauty of the structure would be marred the contractors have collected 2,784,768 of the contract price of 3,845,344 and the balance 560,576 was held in reserve until completion of the building just before bnsse's term expired he caused an order directing the commissioner of pub lic works to sanction the payment of two thirds of the reserve fund for some reason mullaney failed to attend to the matter and nobody suspected mcgann would object until his attention was called to the blank spaces in the la salle street walls man conquers suffragist lady sybil smith talking too much obeys husband in hurry new york may s lady sybil smith one of england's aristocratic militant suf fragettes obeyed the command of man as soon as she set foot ashore from the lusilauia to-day she is young and hand some and had begun to tell what her plans were for her slay in america as the guest of j pierpont morgan jr when her husband vivien smith who looks a militant air told her ladyship not to talk too much the englishwoman said that she had not planned the parade of women in london for june 17 although she in tends to take part in it that she would like to meet mrs belmont but is going to canada and vancouver and right back to london then her husband intervened wire foretells poisoning stranger notifies mrs b j cigrand of chicagoan's illness due later des moines lowa may 5 a telegram signed c r becker and saying that dr b j cigrand of Chicago had been poi soned was filed here at 8 o'clock last night addressed to mrs cig/and at her home in Chicago she arrived at des moines to day after a fruitless all-day search she learned to-night that he is in burlington he said over the long distance phone that he had been taken ill apparently from some sort of poisoning at 10:30 o'clock last night following a luncheon this was more than two hours after the mysterious message was filed c h becker has not been discovered dr cigrand was in des moinec and burlington to lecture before dental societies he is editor of the na tional dental journal caterpillars halt trains sapulpa okla may s au traius on the midland valley railroad were late into sapnlpa to-day on account of caterpillars which swarmed the tracks in the wooded sections so that the locomotives slipped or were stalled trainmen said they had to sweep the worms from the rails and mnd the track before the wheels would sti^k fc diaz defiant will not quit fight to death is assured intervention inevitable-gen wood washington may 5 â€” general leonard wood chief of staff of the army informed the military committee of the hoiise to-day that american intervention in mexico is inevitable general wood said : it will take more than 200,000 american soldiers to police mexico but it is my opinion it is unavoidable general wood made the statement to the members of the committee on military affairs at an executive session after a dis cussion of the pending army reorganization bill the mexican situa tion was broached thereupon he made the above statement cullom won't back lorimer in fight to block new inquiry senijr Illinois senator also an nounces that he will not op . pose bills before body washington may b senator cullom of Illinois regular of regulars and nominal head of the republican party in the sen ate will not oppose a second investigation into the rights of senator lorimer his colleague to a seat in the senate accord ing to his statement made to-day i have no objection to consideration and action on measures which affect the in tegrity of the senate said senator cul lom furthermore senator cullom either as the head of the senate regulars or as an individual member of the upper branch of congress will not oppose senatorial action at the extra session on the constitutional amendment for the direct election of sena tors the campaign publicity bill and the reapportionment bill although the ad mitted desire of the senate regulars is to consider no measures but the reciprocity agreement at this session senator cullom is prepared to go farther along the lines in which the people of the country want congress to proceed at next monday's meeting of the finance commit tee of which be is the ranking member and which now has the reciprocity agree ment before it for consideration he will speak out and insist upon an effort to hasten deliberation of the measure if we don't get down to tasiness pretty soon we'd better go home says senator cullom at any rate we should go to places which will be more comfortable in summer than washington we ought to quit this fooling along senator cullom went on to say that he has no objection to the senate considering the measures placed before it by the house with the exception of the farmers free list bill there is nothing ont of the way about this sentiment for a regular republican senator innsmuch as the ad ministration members have always treen against it for the general but not particu larly illuminative reason that it is tinker ing with the tariff porfirio diaz aviator circles capitol lincoln beachey also sees batl game from region above washington mav s lincoln beachey to-day made the first aeroplane voyage ever accomplished around the capitol of the united states incidental to circling the big dome he traversed the entire overhead section of washington and almost broke up a baseball game between washington and the athletics at national park by fly ilng above it med intervention by u.s is certain declares gen wood force of 200,000 is necessary aged president regains his lost popularity people now more alarmed over leader's health than over revolt rebels take rib verde general blanquet is routed douglas ariz may 5 a late dispatch says th.h two mexican gunboats were shelling mazatian which is un derstood to be an unfortified town shelling sÂ«ch a city it contrary to the usages of war in order to shell the city even if fortified ample notice should be given to the noncombrt ants washington may s the state department was informed to-day by ambassador wilson that three ons ot judge melvin goodwin living in acapulco have been kuied by insurrectos an investigation will be made by mexican authorities by harry h dunn 7 a exico city ' may s standing on the steps of his tottering i jfl throne ' porfirio dias !. for twenty-six years president of mexico v â–¼ . to-day defied his enemies repudiated his perfidious friends ana 4 refused to accede to the demands of the foes of the present government and step down and out of his self-created office all day long the foes of the gray-haired fighter from oaxaca have showered blow af^er blow upon him and alone and single-handed he has met them until to-night he sits upon the presidential chair more firmly intrenched than when the morning guns boomed their salute to the sth of may with the dawn same the news that torreon had fallen at noon the rebels had taken rio verde between san luis potosi and tampico killing the jefe politico and getting into position to cut the railroad to tampico general blahquet leaving puebla with 1,200 men fought the rebels at colon and returned with 200 the remainder were killed or had deserted cabinet urges diaz to resign but fails the cabinet met at 10 o'clock this morning it is understood that they urged diaz to resign but failed petitions were signed by almost every professional man in the city asking tor his resignation employes of all the big houses also asked him to quit the cabinet met again at 4 30 this afternoon and is stin in session the city is decorated flowers and electric lights are everywhere but when night fell all was allowed to remain dark except street and house lights it seemed as if the city were mourning lor its passed leader the nation grieving for a dead dynasty then came the reaction despite his illness diaz proved himself still the iron-hearted warrior who brought mexico to success in a quarter of a century the day generally was peaceful despite general disturbances thou sands filled the parks to hear the band music hundreds of police mounted and afoot patrolled ail the streets all sa?oons were closed the giant question mark which hung over the city last night seemeu lifted though no open statement of diaz's attitude was made diaz's refusal to quit means fight to end diaz's refusal to resign means a fight to the death yet liei-o-^vw shiping mexicans seem in a way turned to him he alone they fcei can save them and as children to father they look to him for relief the sad condition of the republic he again is the leader or the nation he has made anxiety is greater here to-night over diaz's health ihan oi i the revolt the heart of the capital city throbs for dia rebels met in a skirmish with federals at tres marias to-day tfcp casualties were slight â€¢ the insurrectos circled the hills and cam .-..;. eighteen miles from the city on the cuernavaca road wires t :' â– north are down and the national railway has been cut near vie bcrde - . the cabinet is in session without de la barra and a ffnal reply 'â– â– > madero will be sent this evening dela barra would be the ie^a successor of diaz should the latter resign \ the american ambassador harry lane wilson has a!:en oti'.c'h notice of the assassination of the three goodwin brothers of los angeis.-i / by the insurrectos at acapulco warships would reach that point iu tiree ( days mrs huntington better new york may 3 mrs collis p huntington who underwent an operation for appendicitis at her home wednesday was so far improved to-day that her phy sicians stated that her complete recovery vni'tt matter of oniv a fÂ«w days armistice expires at noon to-day rebel attack on juarez expected el paso tex may 0 the dove of peace which hovered yesterday and last nigh over juarez and the insurreeto camp bow seems far off because diaÃŸ has re fused to answer the telegram sent him last night asking him to make a public statement he is said to have made iu pri vate that he is going to resign when peace is restored oscar branlff one of the federal peace commissioners says he does not expect diaz to answer peace nego tiations cannot go on unless he does so continued on 4th page 4th column free with to-morrow's sunday examiner a 32-page book handsomely printed and bound with col ored cover 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